Grossman Jonathan H. (Associate Professor Ucla)
Grossman Jonathan H. (Associate Professor Ucla) - Charles Dickens's Networks Public Transport And The Novel - Paperback
Grossman Jonathan H. (Associate Professor Ucla) - Charles Dickens's Networks Public Transport And The Novel - Paperback
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Description: The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel The Pickwick Papers the first railway line in London opened. Charles Dickens's Networks explores the rise of the global high - speed passenger transport network in the nineteenth century and the indelible impact it made on Dickens's work. The advent first of stage coaches then of railways and transoceanic steam ships made unprecedented round - trip journeys across once seemingly far distances seem ordinary and systematic. Time itself was changed. The Victorians overran the separate local times kept in each town establishing instead the synchronized 'standard time which now ticks on our clocks. Jonathan Grossman examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time space and community and how the art form of the novel played a special role in synthesizing and understanding it all. Focusing on a trio of road novels by Charles Dickens he looks first at a key historical moment in the networked community's coming together then at a subsequent recognition of its tragic limits and finally at the construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine their journeying in the network.
Title: Charles Dickens's Networks Public Transport And The Novel
Author(s): Grossman Jonathan H. (Associate Professor Ucla)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199682164
Pages: 272 Pages, 17 Black-And-White Halftones And 3 Maps
Publication Date: 12/1/2013
Category: Transport Technology & Trades
Description: The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel The Pickwick Papers the first railway line in London opened. Charles Dickens's Networks explores the rise of the global high - speed passenger transport network in the nineteenth century and the indelible impact it made on Dickens's work. The advent first of stage coaches then of railways and transoceanic steam ships made unprecedented round - trip journeys across once seemingly far distances seem ordinary and systematic. Time itself was changed. The Victorians overran the separate local times kept in each town establishing instead the synchronized 'standard time which now ticks on our clocks. Jonathan Grossman examines the history of public transport's systematic networking of people and how this revolutionized perceptions of time space and community and how the art form of the novel played a special role in synthesizing and understanding it all. Focusing on a trio of road novels by Charles Dickens he looks first at a key historical moment in the networked community's coming together then at a subsequent recognition of its tragic limits and finally at the construction of a revised view that expressed the precarious limited omniscient perspective by which passengers came to imagine their journeying in the network.
Title: Charles Dickens's Networks Public Transport And The Novel
Author(s): Grossman Jonathan H. (Associate Professor Ucla)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780199682164
Pages: 272 Pages, 17 Black-And-White Halftones And 3 Maps
Publication Date: 12/1/2013
Category: Transport Technology & Trades
